Weather in Sholapur in October

Shoulder season. October is shoulder season in Sholapur — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs average 31.9 °C, lows 20.1 °C, and rain falls on 10 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 4 of 12 in Sholapur: past the worst of the year but short of December, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 10 days, 2 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 31.9 °C days and 20.1 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 26 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 37.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 13.7 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 70 mm — roughly 86% of the month's rain in one day.

October is moderately variable: 6 mm in the driest year against 248 mm in the wettest, around an average of 81 mm. Roughly two Octobers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 7.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 71%.

How October sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 31.8 °C in September, 31.9 here, 31.3 in November. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: November brings 7 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in October

11.8 hours of daylight, losing 0.5 hours across the month. That is between Sholapur's extremes of 13.2 and 11.1 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 25.7 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

October in Sholapur versus nearby

If Sholapur is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Pune is a better bet in October — 3.2 °C cooler, 2 days more rain. Aurangabad is a better bet in October — 2.2 °C cooler, 2 days less rain.

So: October is a compromise. December is 21 points better and is what Sholapur is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Sholapur

See all twelve months in Sholapur, or where else to go in October.